From: Savin Zlobec <savin@elatec.si>
To: jam2000@pisem.net, nickg@ecoscentric.com
Cc: ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [ECOS] Re: building redboot with eCos kernel
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 15:03:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40AE0F3F.7080604@elatec.si> (raw)
Nick Garnett wrote:
>Michael Jastrebtsoff <jam2000@pisem.net> writes:
>
>> Hello, All.
>>
>> I need to build Redboot with FAT support. But FAT requires eCos
>> kernel.
>>
>> I try build Redboot with eCos kernel, but this don't work.(when i
>> connected to redboot via terminal, i'v got a random chars on screen.)
>
>The FAT filesystem will not work in RedBoot since it requires too many
>kernel facilities to work. You cannot put the kernel into RedBoot
>since RedBoot is intended to be a stand alone application, there are
>just too many assumptions for this to work.
>
>
There shouldn't be a lot do to get fatfs into RedBoot - all I can think of
right now is the cyg_mempool_* api which is not available in nonkernel
configurations.
>The only use that RedBoot would have for FAT filesystem support is to
>load executables. So a simple read-only loader similar to the one that
>already exists for ext2 would be a better solution.
>
>
This has already beed done - check The DODES project at
http://www.m17n.org/dodes/ecos/index.en.html.
savin
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-21 15:03 Savin Zlobec [this message]
2004-05-21 16:18 ` Nick Garnett
2006-05-31 0:14 [ECOS] Building redboot with eCos Kernel Andre-John Mas
2006-05-31 3:09 ` [ECOS] " Grant Edwards
2006-06-01 1:51 ` André-John Mas
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